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 Spirit prepares the believer for larger communications of the life of God.

I am afraid this great and important truth is little understood, not only by the world, but even by many whom God hath taken out of the world, who are real children of God by faith. Many of these lay it down as an unquestioned truth, that when we come to Christ, we have done with the law; and that in this sense, ''Christ is the end of the law, to every one that believeth. The end of the law. So he is, for righteousness'', for justification to every one that believeth. Herein the law is at an end. It justifies none; but only brings them to Christ. Who is also in another respect, the end or scope of the law, the point at which it continually aims. But when it has brought us to him, it has yet a farther office, namely, to keep us with him. For it is continually exciting all believers, the more they see of its height and depth and length and breadth, to exhort one another so much the more,

"Closer and closer let us cleave To his belov'd embrace: Expect his fulness to receive,  And grace to answer grace."

4. * Allowing then that every believer has done with the law, as it means the Jewish ceremonial law, or the entire Mosaic dispensation